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Honorius

Also known as Emperor of the West Honorius, Flavius, Emperor of Rome Honorius, Emperor of Rome Honorius, Emperor of Rome Flavius Honorius, Flavius Honorius

Honorius (; 9 September 384 – 15 August 423) was Roman emperor from 393 to 423. He was the younger son of emperor Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla. After the death of Theodosius in 395, Honorius, under the regency of Stilicho, ruled the western half of the empire while his brother Arcadius ruled the eastern half. His reign over the Western Roman Empire was precarious and chaotic. In 410, Rome was sacked for the first time since the Battle of the Allia almost 800 years prior.

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Honorius was a Roman emperor who ruled the western half of the empire from 395 to 423, following the death of his father Theodosius I. His reign was marked by instability and military crisis, most notably the sacking of Rome itself in 410—an event that had not occurred for nearly 800 years and symbolized the declining power of the Western Roman Empire.

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Born: ca. 1080
Died: ca. 1156.
Works: 32

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Royalty.name: Honorius
Royalty.image: Diptych of Honorius (head) (2).jpg
Royalty.caption: Detail of Honorius as depicted on the consular diptych of Probus, AD 406
Royalty.succession: Roman emperor of the West
Royalty.reign type: Augustus
Royalty.predecessor: Theodosius I
Royalty.successor: Joannes
Royalty.reg type: Co-rulers
Royalty.birth_date: 9 September 384
Royalty.birth_place: Constantinople
Royalty.death_place: Ravenna, Italy
Royalty.burial_place: Old St. Peter's Basilica
Royalty.regnal name: Imperator Caesar Flavius Honorius Augustus
Royalty.dynasty: Theodosian
Royalty.father: Theodosius I
Royalty.mother: Aelia Flaccilla
Royalty.religion: Nicene Christianity

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Image: Consular diptych Probus 406.jpg

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Commons category: Honorius
date of birth: 0384-00-00
date of death: 0423-01-01
Commons gallery: Emperor Honorius
name in native language: Flavius Honorius Augustus
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Family
Emperor
Early reign
Stilicho and the defence of Italy
Sack of Rome
Constantius and the beginning of erosion of the Western Empire
Death
Assessments
See also
References
Sources
Primary sources
Secondary sources
External links

==Family== Honorius was born to Emperor Theodosius I and Empress Aelia Flaccilla on 9 September 384 in Constantinople. He was the brother of Arcadius and Pulcheria. In 386, his mother died, and in 387, Theodosius married Galla who had taken a temporary refuge in Thessaloniki with her family, including her brother Valentinian II and mother Justina, away from usurper Magnus Maximus. Theodosius and Galla had a daughter, Honorius's half-sister Galla Placidia. Honorius, Arcadius, and Galla Placidia were the only children of Theodosius to survive into adulthood.